Comparative Cognition Society
@compcogsoc.bsky.social
CCS is a community of researchers dedicated to understanding the evolution of cognition and development of behaviour across taxa. Join us at our next conference #CO32026 in Montreal, April 15-18, 2026.
https://www.comparativecognition.org/
https://www.comparativecognition.org/
Show Your Comparative Cognition Love!🦝♥️ Order your CCS merchandise in our online shop. We have water bottles, hats, mugs & more. We still have the CO3 2025 shirts in honor of Suzanne MacDonald, ft. orangutans & raccoons & we'll make sporadic announcements as new items are added
July 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Show Your Comparative Cognition Love!🦝♥️ Order your CCS merchandise in our online shop. We have water bottles, hats, mugs & more. We still have the CO3 2025 shirts in honor of Suzanne MacDonald, ft. orangutans & raccoons & we'll make sporadic announcements as new items are added
CO3 2026 will be in Montréal! 🇨🇦
📍 Delta Hotel, Montréal, QC
📅 April 15–18
After careful consideration, the CCS Executive Committee chose based on survey feedback, travel, safety, cost & character. We believe it’s the best option for our community & hope to see you there!
📍 Delta Hotel, Montréal, QC
📅 April 15–18
After careful consideration, the CCS Executive Committee chose based on survey feedback, travel, safety, cost & character. We believe it’s the best option for our community & hope to see you there!
May 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
CO3 2026 will be in Montréal! 🇨🇦
📍 Delta Hotel, Montréal, QC
📅 April 15–18
After careful consideration, the CCS Executive Committee chose based on survey feedback, travel, safety, cost & character. We believe it’s the best option for our community & hope to see you there!
📍 Delta Hotel, Montréal, QC
📅 April 15–18
After careful consideration, the CCS Executive Committee chose based on survey feedback, travel, safety, cost & character. We believe it’s the best option for our community & hope to see you there!
🎇✨Congratulations Prof. Susan Healy, our 2027 Research Award recipient (Uni. St Andrews, UK). A symposium + banquet will honor her contributions at the 2027 conference & a special issue will be published March 2028: 'In Honour of the Contributions of Susan Healy' #WomenInSTEM
April 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🎇✨Congratulations Prof. Susan Healy, our 2027 Research Award recipient (Uni. St Andrews, UK). A symposium + banquet will honor her contributions at the 2027 conference & a special issue will be published March 2028: 'In Honour of the Contributions of Susan Healy' #WomenInSTEM
✨What an incredible CO3 we had this year #CO3_2025 ! Thank you to all joined us and contributed your insights and energy to the talks, posters, events and great discussions. It was a truly inspiring event. Until next time💙🏳️🌈🌍🤝
April 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
✨What an incredible CO3 we had this year #CO3_2025 ! Thank you to all joined us and contributed your insights and energy to the talks, posters, events and great discussions. It was a truly inspiring event. Until next time💙🏳️🌈🌍🤝
Maria Botero gives her talk discussing the exemplary work of Suzanne MacDonald and how she has contributed to the field of Comparative Cognition! Such a great tribute to a true leader and role model in our field! #CO3_2025 🧪🦝🐘
March 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Maria Botero gives her talk discussing the exemplary work of Suzanne MacDonald and how she has contributed to the field of Comparative Cognition! Such a great tribute to a true leader and role model in our field! #CO3_2025 🧪🦝🐘
Symposium in Honor of the Contributions of Suzanne MacDonald is starting soon! Join us for talks featuring A Tribute to Suzanne MacDonald, Dimensions of Mind Perception in Companion Animals, Human-Crow Relationships, Animal Cultures, & more! #CO3_2025 🧪🦧🐒🐦⬛
March 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Symposium in Honor of the Contributions of Suzanne MacDonald is starting soon! Join us for talks featuring A Tribute to Suzanne MacDonald, Dimensions of Mind Perception in Companion Animals, Human-Crow Relationships, Animal Cultures, & more! #CO3_2025 🧪🦧🐒🐦⬛
The #Attention & #Memory session is about to begin! Come join us for talks about Cognitive Effort & Working Memory in Rheus monkeys, Reversed Attentional Boost Effect in Pigeons, Sensory Modality & Visual Working Memory, & Long-term Memory in Dolphins #CO3_2025 🧪🐬🐒
March 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The #Attention & #Memory session is about to begin! Come join us for talks about Cognitive Effort & Working Memory in Rheus monkeys, Reversed Attentional Boost Effect in Pigeons, Sensory Modality & Visual Working Memory, & Long-term Memory in Dolphins #CO3_2025 🧪🐬🐒
Rebecca Westwick starts off the session presenting work on a #cognitive test battery with the #charismatic dung beetle 🪲💩#CO3_2025
March 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Rebecca Westwick starts off the session presenting work on a #cognitive test battery with the #charismatic dung beetle 🪲💩#CO3_2025
Good morning #CO3_2025! Come join us for a group visit to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History at 9:00am! A member of Team CO3 will lead a walking group from the hotel foyer for an approximate 10 minute walk. A reduced admission will be offered when showing your CO3 badge!
March 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Good morning #CO3_2025! Come join us for a group visit to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History at 9:00am! A member of Team CO3 will lead a walking group from the hotel foyer for an approximate 10 minute walk. A reduced admission will be offered when showing your CO3 badge!
The Perspective Taking & Social Perception session is starting at 4:54pm! Join us for talks discussing What Monkeys Know About Knowledge, Limits of Primate Gaze-Following, Deceiving Bonobos, Perspective-taking in Chimps, Dominance in Bonobos, & more! #CO3_2025 🦧🦍🧪
March 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The Perspective Taking & Social Perception session is starting at 4:54pm! Join us for talks discussing What Monkeys Know About Knowledge, Limits of Primate Gaze-Following, Deceiving Bonobos, Perspective-taking in Chimps, Dominance in Bonobos, & more! #CO3_2025 🦧🦍🧪
Do dolphins understand cooperation and how do they coordinate it? Kelly Jaakkola shows us the strategies dolphins use to initiate and coordinate cooperation with partners 🐬 🧪 #CO3_2025
March 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Do dolphins understand cooperation and how do they coordinate it? Kelly Jaakkola shows us the strategies dolphins use to initiate and coordinate cooperation with partners 🐬 🧪 #CO3_2025
Come back after the snack break for the #Communication session starting at 4:02 PM. We will hear about aspects of communication in #dolphins, #apes, #chickadees, and #ChatGPT. #CO3_2025
March 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Come back after the snack break for the #Communication session starting at 4:02 PM. We will hear about aspects of communication in #dolphins, #apes, #chickadees, and #ChatGPT. #CO3_2025
Tanya Shoot presents her work discussing Cognition in Plants 🪴 🌱 suggesting that we should “move towards the idea of plants as active individuals, rather than passive factories”. What an interesting presentation! #CO3_2025 🧪
March 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tanya Shoot presents her work discussing Cognition in Plants 🪴 🌱 suggesting that we should “move towards the idea of plants as active individuals, rather than passive factories”. What an interesting presentation! #CO3_2025 🧪
Join us for the Emerging Topics in Comparative Cognition session starting at 2:41pm! Talks will be discussing Higher & Lower Cognition, Radicle Embodied Cognition in Plants 🪴 and Spontaneous Cognition in Bumblebees 🐝 #CO3_2025
March 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Join us for the Emerging Topics in Comparative Cognition session starting at 2:41pm! Talks will be discussing Higher & Lower Cognition, Radicle Embodied Cognition in Plants 🪴 and Spontaneous Cognition in Bumblebees 🐝 #CO3_2025
The #Discrimination session starts at 1:40PM. Learn about mental representations, visual #perception, visual discrimination, #numerosity, preferences for #auditory complexity, and hierarchical perception! 🧪🐶🐱🐵🐦🐀🦜#CO3_2025
March 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The #Discrimination session starts at 1:40PM. Learn about mental representations, visual #perception, visual discrimination, #numerosity, preferences for #auditory complexity, and hierarchical perception! 🧪🐶🐱🐵🐦🐀🦜#CO3_2025
Stephanie Hargrave presents how #dogs discriminate between visual stimuli using a #touchscreen task 🐶🧪 #CO3_2025
March 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Stephanie Hargrave presents how #dogs discriminate between visual stimuli using a #touchscreen task 🐶🧪 #CO3_2025
The #CanineCognition session is about to begin! Come listen to talks discussing Optimizing Automated Computer Touchscreens for Dog Cognition Testing, DogTouch- a portable touchscreen platform for behavioral and cognitive testing in dogs, and Canine Self-Control! #CO3_2025 🧪🐾🐕
March 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The #CanineCognition session is about to begin! Come listen to talks discussing Optimizing Automated Computer Touchscreens for Dog Cognition Testing, DogTouch- a portable touchscreen platform for behavioral and cognitive testing in dogs, and Canine Self-Control! #CO3_2025 🧪🐾🐕
Liza Rothkoff presents that odor detection performance decreases when switching from low to moderate intensity exercise but detection is not as affected when decreasing exercise intensity. 🧪🐶👃#CO3_2025
March 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Liza Rothkoff presents that odor detection performance decreases when switching from low to moderate intensity exercise but detection is not as affected when decreasing exercise intensity. 🧪🐶👃#CO3_2025
Very cool to see results from the big collaborative effort Many Birds @themanybirds.bsky.social
@drrmiller.bsky.social #CO3_2025 🧪🐤🐦🦜🦆
@drrmiller.bsky.social #CO3_2025 🧪🐤🐦🦜🦆
March 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Very cool to see results from the big collaborative effort Many Birds @themanybirds.bsky.social
@drrmiller.bsky.social #CO3_2025 🧪🐤🐦🦜🦆
@drrmiller.bsky.social #CO3_2025 🧪🐤🐦🦜🦆
The #CanineCognition: OlfactoryDiscrimination session is starting soon! Come join us for talks featuring Same-Different Odor Learning, Effects of Exercise & Physiology on Odor Detection, Effect of Arousal on Memory Consolidation in an Odor Detection Task and more! #CO3_2025🧪🐕🐾
March 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The #CanineCognition: OlfactoryDiscrimination session is starting soon! Come join us for talks featuring Same-Different Odor Learning, Effects of Exercise & Physiology on Odor Detection, Effect of Arousal on Memory Consolidation in an Odor Detection Task and more! #CO3_2025🧪🐕🐾
Come join us at 6:30 for our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Event in Alvarado DE! This event is to serve as a safe space for discussing EDI concerns and challenges. All are warmly welcome to join, snack will be provided! Hope to see you all there! #CO3_2025
March 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Come join us at 6:30 for our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Event in Alvarado DE! This event is to serve as a safe space for discussing EDI concerns and challenges. All are warmly welcome to join, snack will be provided! Hope to see you all there! #CO3_2025
Our last session of talks for Day 2 of #CO3_2025 is Animal Emotion, starting at 5:02 PM. These talks will provide some ideas of how to assess emotions in bonobos, dogs, budgerigars, and humans. 🧪🐶🐤🧍♀️
March 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Our last session of talks for Day 2 of #CO3_2025 is Animal Emotion, starting at 5:02 PM. These talks will provide some ideas of how to assess emotions in bonobos, dogs, budgerigars, and humans. 🧪🐶🐤🧍♀️